M&A Advisory | Private Capital | Corporate Development

About Us

Palanca Capital is a boutique investment bank focused on the M&A advisory, Private Capital raising and Corporate Development needs of growing companies. The firm is founded and composed of professionals with wide and deep experience; with backgrounds in investment banking, management consulting & operating roles. We hold a deeply ingrained belief that we succeed – when our clients succeed.

The firm is stage agnostic and we serve high-performing entrepreneurs, growth companies, and management teams with our deep domain and subject matter expertise and strong networks founded on unyielding integrity, commitment, insight & high capability.

We exist - to assist and advise our clients - by contributing meaningfully towards the achievement of their aspirations and ambitions with respect to their enterprise (n&v). We exist to serve men and women of action and those that make things happen. Stands to reason, we cannot ourselves be of the other kind, ergo -

We stand with an unflinching and fanatical commitment to client success;

We are people of action, insight and perspective; guided with the ethos of integrity & discretion;

We apply ourselves to the limits of our abilities towards making things happen within ethical and legal frameworks.

Services

M&A Advisory

We provide mergers and acquisitions advice and services to our clients in areas of divestitures, spin-offs, re-structuring, acquisitions, mergers, de-mergers, joint-ventures, alliances and partnerships, strategic licensing etc. We understand that these are some of the most strategic and important decisions and transactions for our clients and we bring to bear years of experience, expertise, insights and perspectives in an un-biased, independent manner in assisting our clients meet their goals.

Palanca Capital assists and advises clients in raising venture capital and private equity financing. Our team brings deep domain and subject matter expertise in understanding client businesses and managing efficient transaction processes over a broad institutional investor network and also high networth individuals, angel networks and family offices. Along with vanilla VC & PE financings, the team at Palanca Capital have led complex LBO financings involving senior debt, PIK notes, vendor financing and other forms of financings viz. structured bridge and mezzanine financings.

Corporate Development

While incubators and accelerators work with early stage companies over the few initial months past inception, Palanca Capital engages with entrepreneurs and their teams over the larger life cycle of their businesses. From idea / inception to late maturity and eventual exit - with a singular objective - growth with decisive value accretion.

Businesses go through distinct phases of development, challenges and issues over their life cycle. Typically, all business go through the following phases in their life cycle -

- Initial idea in the founder's minds - initial validation - early stage product / solution / service formulation - first team build out - first customer acquisitions - early hyper growth phase - later growth stage, expansion and eventually - steady state growth / maturity - with planned / serendipitous financings and exits somewhere along the life cycle -

Each phase has its unique requirements of the founders and team to think through and implement various strategic, tactical and operational initiatives. Over the years, Palanca Capital has assisted numerous founders and management teams with these various phases of growth and value monetization.

Over the years, we have engaged with entrepreneurs and their companies (tiny to large sized and very early to late stage in the life cycle) with long term, multi year, continuous engagement models with senior level advisory on all facets of strategic importance together with advising and managing transaction processes for financing (VC / PE fund raises), alliances, partnerships, JVs, strategic licensing, transformational business development initiatives and M&A transactions - with the singular objective of growth towards value accretion / monetization.

We serve in the capacity of founder's partners and as the de-facto office of strategy and M&A (also known as the corporate development office) of our client / portfolio companies.

Sectors

Drawing from decades of professional experience, our leadership team and professionals have extensive knowledge and relationships in each of the sectors we serve

Leadership

Ashwin Gokhale

Founder & Managing Director

Ashwin founded Palanca Capital in 2014 and has over 20 years of professional experience. Prior to founding Palanca Capital, he was a member of the M&A Advisory practice of EY India with a significant contribution to its market leadership in India during this time. Ashwin’s professional career advising and assisting entrepreneurs, companies and the venture capital / private equity ecosystem goes back to the time when the first VCs were yet to set up shop in India. Prior to this, he held operating roles in engineering and business development with Black & Decker Bajaj India. In his professional career, Ashwin has been an entrepreneur himself a few times over with ventures in technology, management consulting, consumer goods, and the capital markets. These experiences have given him a unique perspective to understand – first hand - the dilemmas, challenges, joys and sorrows of entrepreneurs. Coupled with the extensive experience in investment banking, he brings these perspectives and insights to bear in assisting and advising clients and in interactions and engagements with investors, counterparties and other stakeholders. Ashwin’s investment banking experience in advising on transactions extends to numerous venture capital and private equity financings, sell-side and buy-side engagements on domestic and cross-border M&A transactions executed over parties and counterparties in India, France, Italy, UK, Spain, Israel, US, Canada, Australia, Japan, China and Africa.

Abhijith Rao

Associate Director

Abhijith has over 10 years of investment banking experience. He is a professional distinguished by his commitment to client success. He is at his best when working with entrepreneurs. With a highly developed acumen and deep experience, Abhijith aims to make a difference to the entrepreneur’s journey in assisting them and their teams to achieve their goals with respect to their enterprise. This is what drives him and brings out the best in him. Prior to joining Palanca Capital, Abhijith was a member of the investment banking practice at EY based out of Bangalore. He has advised on transactions ranging from vanilla VC/ PE financings and M&A transactions to complex situations of PE exits, business carve outs etc. His sectoral coverage has included businesses in diversified industrials, consumer, technology and business services. Abhijith is a Chartered Accountant with prior roles in tax advisory and transfer pricing. Outside of investment banking, Abhijith takes a keen interest in birding and volunteering for wildlife projects.

Legal

TERMS OF USE

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Disclaimer

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USER RESTRICTIONS

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LINKS TO THIRD PARTY WEBSITES

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PRIVACY

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CHANGE IN TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Palanca reserves the right, in its sole discretion, without any obligation and without any notice, to change these Terms of Use at any time or to suspend and/or deny access to this Website for scheduled or unscheduled maintenance, upgrades, improvements or corrections. Palanca does not undertake any obligation or responsibility to update or amend any information. Palanca may discontinue or change any product or service described in or offered on this Website at any time in its discretion. Such changes will become effective and binding after their posting on this section of the Website. You are responsible for regularly reviewing and your continued use of the Website constitutes your agreement to all such changes. By continuing to use our products and services and this Website after any posted revision, the visitor/customer accepts to abide by it.

GOVERNING LAW

The Terms of Use is governed by Indian Laws. Any dispute arising with respect to this Terms of Use shall be subject to exclusive jurisdiction of Court(s) at Bangalore.

CONTACT US

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about the Terms of Use, please write to us at info@Palancacapital.com

PRIVACY POLICY

WELCOME

This Privacy Policy pertains to the website www.palancacapital.com (hereinafter referred to as "the Website" or "this Website"). The term Palanca refers to Palanca Capital Advisors Pvt Ltd and its worldwide affiliates.

Palanca respects your privacy on the Internet. This Website collects certain types of information about our contacts and strictly maintains the privacy of the information so collected. We also maintain a certain transparency on what we do with it and how to correct or change your information. This Privacy Policy is designed to inform you about our practices regarding collection, use, and disclosure of information that you may provide via this Website. Please be sure to read this entire Privacy Policy before using or submitting information to this Website. Use of this Website constitutes your consent to our Privacy Policy.

PERSONAL INFORMATION AND ITS USAGE

Like many other websites, this Website collects information from its visitors/customers by permitting you to communicate directly with us via e-mail and feedback / contact us forms. Some of the information that you submit may be personally identifiable information (information that can be uniquely identified with you, such as your full name, address, e-mail address, phone number, and so on). Certain information collected from your end may be mandatory whereas certain information may be optional.

We collect personal information for following purposes:

• to provide information about our products and services;

• to seek your feedback or to contact you in relation to the products and services offered on the Website;

• to process orders or applications submitted by you;

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• to anticipate and resolve problems with any goods or services supplied/rendered to you;

• to create products or services that may meet your needs;

• to process and respond to requests, improve our operations, and communicate with visitors about our products, services and businesses.

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This Website may disclose your personally identifiable information to other Website affiliates that agree to treat it in accordance with this Privacy Policy. In addition, we may disclose your personally identifiable information to third parties, located in India and/or any other country, but only for following purposes:

(i) to contractors we use to support our business (e.g. fulfillment services, technical support, delivery services, financial institutions, etc), in which case we will require such third parties to agree to treat it in accordance with this Privacy Policy;

(ii) in connection with the sale, assignment, or other transfer of the business of this Website to which the information relates, in which case we will require any such buyer to agree to treat it in accordance with this Privacy Policy; or

(iii) where required by applicable laws, court orders, or government regulations.

INFORMATION AND ITS USAGE

Disclosure

As you navigate through this Website, certain information can be passively collected (collected without your actively providing the information) using various technologies and means, such as navigational data collection.

We may send cookies to your computer. Cookies are strings of information that are sent out by a website and saved in your computer. We may use session specific cookies to automatically collect data about website usage when you visit this Website, including your IP address, portions of the Website that you visit and the information or other services you obtain or input (including domain name, Internet service provider, protocol, browser type, operating system etc.). This information is collected primarily for purposes of administering the Website, compiling demographic information and monitoring usage and performance of the Website. If you turn off the cookie function you may not receive all the information on the Website. We may use your IP address to diagnose problems with our server, report aggregate information, determine the fastest route for your computer to use in connecting to our Website, and administer and improve this Website. Palanca believes that by collecting certain information of its visitors/customers it is able to use your information to improve the content of this Website, to customize the Website to user's preferences, to communicate information to you, for our marketing and research purposes, and for providing you with the latest information for direct marketing purposes where we think you may be interested in the products and services of Palanca.

We will make full use of all information acquired through this Website that is not in personally identifiable form.

LINKS TO THIRD PARTY WEBSITES

Other websites that have links on our Website may collect personally identifiable information about you. The data protection practices of those websites linked to this Website are not covered by this Privacy Policy. You are advised to check the data protection policies of these third party websites yourself before using those sites.

SECURITY

Palanca is committed to protecting your privacy and utilizing technology that gives you the most powerful, safe, online experience that you can get anywhere else. Palanca shall ensure to safeguard the security and confidentiality of any information you share with us. Any personally identifiable information of the visitors/customers obtained by us shall not be used or shared other than for the purposes to which the visitors/customers consent. However security and confidentiality of information cannot be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Hence despite our utmost efforts to protect your personal information, Palanca cannot warrant the security of any information you transmit to us through our online services. Such transmission of your personal information is done at your own risk.

CHANGES TO PRIVACY POLICY

Palanca reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. Such changes will become effective and binding after their posting on this section of the Website. The visitor/customer is responsible to review the Privacy Policy regularly and be aware of the changes made. By continuing to use our products and services and this Website after any posted revision, the visitor/customer accepts to abide by it.

This Privacy Policy is not intended to and does not create any contractual or other legal rights in or on behalf of any party.

CONTACT US

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about this Privacy Policy or the information practices of this Website, please write to us at info@palancacapital.com